It’s a safe bet that Rutgers would like actual athletic competition to begin. First, the Mike Rice scandal. Then he’s fired. Then his boss, former Athletic Director Tim Pernetti, resigned. The it turns out his replacement, Julie Hermann, allegedly has a history of player abuse stemming from her days
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NBC Sports’ Rob Simmelkjaer explains the Rutgers controversy with its incoming athletic director, Julie Hermann. He talks about the allegations against Hermann and the decision to hire her as Athletic Director despite their knowledge of the allegations.

Julie Hermann, the newly appointed athletic director of Rutgers University, is defending herself against allegations that she verbally abused athletes when she was a volleyball coach at the University of Tennessee. NBC’s Kristen Dahlgren reports.

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After the departure of abusive men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, Rutgers is once again in hot water over the new athletic director Julie Hermann, who reportedly engaged in abusive activities herself. Dave Zirin and former New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey discuss the latest.

For the second time this year, Rutgers University’s athletic department is embroiled in controversy. Just two months after the firing of mike rice, the newly-chosen athletic director Julie Hermann is grabbing headlines. Former players she coached at the university of Tennessee, say they were mistr

Dr. Todd R. Clear, dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, talks with Rachel Maddow about the realities behind U.S. missing persons statistics and the rarity, despite their media prevalence, of the kind of abduction cases like the one alleged to have happened in Cleveland.

TODAY’s Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb talk about the funny Melissa McCarthy hosting “Saturday Night Live,” where she poked fun at “The Voice” and the Rutgers basketball controversy. KLG says that her husband, former athlete and sportcaster Frank Gifford, is appalled by the Rutgers incident and ne

A software company recruiter meets job seekers at a career fair at the Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey in this file photo taken January 6, 2011. The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell sharply last week to its lowest level since the early days of the 2007-

A woman walks at the campus after Rutgers University President Robert Barchi held a town hall meeting to students and people in Newark, New Jersey, April 8, 2013. Rutgers University plans to commission an independent review of how the school handled allegations that its men's basketball coach physic

People walk at the campus after Rutgers University President Robert Barchi held a town hall meeting to students and people in Newark, New Jersey, April 8, 2013. Rutgers University plans to commission an independent review of how the school handled allegations that its men's basketball coach physical